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I have been following the emergence and ultimate convergence of Internet and TV. The real crux will be content ownership and some sites made deals a year ago to produce shows for them. The ultimate switch will be similar to when the traditional networks lost eyes to cable channels. One misconception IMHO is this over 30 under 30 idea. Using age to demonstrate adaption trends is short sighted and frankly offensive. It puts into the social consciousness a sort of age bias that those over "40" already struggle with. It reminds me of an earlier decade belief in not trusting someone over 30. Not good relationship management.
Posted by: Judith Copeland |
September 29, 2010 9:02 PMthe problem with clicker is everyone already knows where to get the legal main content. Theres not too many places you can get ABC , FOX, NBC .. etc. They aren't solving a real problem. The real problem is finding all the places that I can find it outside of those channels if you know what I mean.
Posted by: guest |
September 29, 2010 9:55 PMGoogle TV has the opportunity to be a transformative milestone in the realization of TV convergence. Google’s Android platform in every user’s home will be open to developers, including Clicker, to run apps that will be able to engage viewers in unprecedented manners. Leaned-back couch potatoes will be offered opportunities to lean-forward and curate their converged media, share, learn take actions.
Closed captioning of both broadcast & online video will be a significant basis for converged TV experiences. Congress has passed, and the President will soon sign, directives to the FCC to have U.S. commercial broadcasters include these time-coded transcripts in all broadcast video content offered online. These metadata can be used by semantic engines to derive highly granular dynamic understanding of the content and better present viewers with powerful recommendations.
Posted by: R Macdonald |
September 29, 2010 9:59 PMWell if Google starts working on it, there's a little chance for other companies unless they can come up with a real innovation and withstand the temptation of selling it out to google. As for online TV, I really hope that they find a smart compromise between producers protecting their content and users wanting it all for free.
Posted by: essay_writing |
September 30, 2010 1:45 AMThe switch from TV over the internet was always going to happen. It will be interesting to see how many peple embrace this change!
Posted by: Dom |
September 30, 2010 2:01 AMIt is expected of Free TV channels to set up their own channel over the internet as others are well gearing up for this. Me for one will use Internet TV if that will be free (for Free Channels) but won’t even pay a dime for Pay Channels since I do have it on cable. Kill the cable first before expecting users to pay for Internet TV.
Posted by: Steve Jobs |
September 30, 2010 8:46 AMIf there is a labeled group that I must fall into then I would be a 'Cable cutter/never'. oh well, like politics two groups do not define the nation's opinion.
I have been cable free for years. Lost the privilege one year and the spell was broken. I watched what I could get/receive from the roof antenna. Then the internet was suddenly quite a resource as I discovered people uploaded their season long DVR recordings and shared to many public sites. These hard to find sites called for registration or a number of uploads to contribute.
Further research found major television companies sharing episodes and highlight reels. Then I heard about a young Hulu.com from a programmer friend who built a major tv site's app and then the Hulu.com app. Nice. This was free with registration and you could setup subscriptions and just scan your queue for what's new.
Another great value is in sites like CastTv.com where we have a resource of shows found all over the web and they simply link you to the sites with the episodes. No fee. They even monitor when a program reaches the end of a season and goes to DVD or the producer earmarks an episode(Ex: Star Wars The Clone Wars to a paid format only).
The tv community is on the move to the web and more will follow as Cable tries to compensate with fees and threatens stations with new contracts. Then we have companies supporting the community with $150 Blue Ray players and $99 Apple Tv that are pushing those internet shows to the front room television directly from your computer. We can get it all in HD quality on youtube, International tv stations, netflix, news shows and old tv series (VHS recordings salvaged and uploaded) that have been forgotten. All of this uploaded and available for the international viewing audience.Posted by: Eric |
September 30, 2010 12:43 PMthis concept is going to rule the future generation TV.
Posted by: san diego zoo |
October 3, 2010 12:38 PMI have been following the emergence and ultimate convergence of Internet and TV. The real crux will be content ownership and some sites made deals a year ago to produce shows for them. The ultimate switch will be similar to when the traditional networks lost eyes to cable channels. One misconception IMHO is this over 30 under 30 idea. Using age to demonstrate adaption trends is short sighted and frankly offensive. It puts into the social consciousness a sort of age bias that those over "40" already struggle with. It reminds me of an earlier decade belief in not trusting someone over 30. Not good relationship management.
Posted by: Judith Copeland |
September 29, 2010 9:02 PMthe problem with clicker is everyone already knows where to get the legal main content. Theres not too many places you can get ABC , FOX, NBC .. etc. They aren't solving a real problem. The real problem is finding all the places that I can find it outside of those channels if you know what I mean.
Posted by: guest |
September 29, 2010 9:55 PMGoogle TV has the opportunity to be a transformative milestone in the realization of TV convergence. Google’s Android platform in every user’s home will be open to developers, including Clicker, to run apps that will be able to engage viewers in unprecedented manners. Leaned-back couch potatoes will be offered opportunities to lean-forward and curate their converged media, share, learn take actions.
Closed captioning of both broadcast & online video will be a significant basis for converged TV experiences. Congress has passed, and the President will soon sign, directives to the FCC to have U.S. commercial broadcasters include these time-coded transcripts in all broadcast video content offered online. These metadata can be used by semantic engines to derive highly granular dynamic understanding of the content and better present viewers with powerful recommendations.
Posted by: R Macdonald |
September 29, 2010 9:59 PMWell if Google starts working on it, there's a little chance for other companies unless they can come up with a real innovation and withstand the temptation of selling it out to google. As for online TV, I really hope that they find a smart compromise between producers protecting their content and users wanting it all for free.
Posted by: essay_writing |
September 30, 2010 1:45 AMThe switch from TV over the internet was always going to happen. It will be interesting to see how many peple embrace this change!
Posted by: Dom |
September 30, 2010 2:01 AMIt is expected of Free TV channels to set up their own channel over the internet as others are well gearing up for this. Me for one will use Internet TV if that will be free (for Free Channels) but won’t even pay a dime for Pay Channels since I do have it on cable. Kill the cable first before expecting users to pay for Internet TV.
Posted by: Steve Jobs |
September 30, 2010 8:46 AMIf there is a labeled group that I must fall into then I would be a 'Cable cutter/never'. oh well, like politics two groups do not define the nation's opinion.
I have been cable free for years. Lost the privilege one year and the spell was broken. I watched what I could get/receive from the roof antenna. Then the internet was suddenly quite a resource as I discovered people uploaded their season long DVR recordings and shared to many public sites. These hard to find sites called for registration or a number of uploads to contribute.
Further research found major television companies sharing episodes and highlight reels. Then I heard about a young Hulu.com from a programmer friend who built a major tv site's app and then the Hulu.com app. Nice. This was free with registration and you could setup subscriptions and just scan your queue for what's new.
Another great value is in sites like CastTv.com where we have a resource of shows found all over the web and they simply link you to the sites with the episodes. No fee. They even monitor when a program reaches the end of a season and goes to DVD or the producer earmarks an episode(Ex: Star Wars The Clone Wars to a paid format only).
The tv community is on the move to the web and more will follow as Cable tries to compensate with fees and threatens stations with new contracts. Then we have companies supporting the community with $150 Blue Ray players and $99 Apple Tv that are pushing those internet shows to the front room television directly from your computer. We can get it all in HD quality on youtube, International tv stations, netflix, news shows and old tv series (VHS recordings salvaged and uploaded) that have been forgotten. All of this uploaded and available for the international viewing audience.Posted by: Eric |
September 30, 2010 12:43 PMthis concept is going to rule the future generation TV.
Posted by: san diego zoo |
October 3, 2010 12:38 PM
Remember the old days of dialler Trojan horses?
Back when most of us didn't have broadband at home, and connected to the internet via a modem, we saw a type of malware which could take advantage of the phone line plugged into the back of your PC and dial an expensive premium rate number.
In this way, criminal hackers could make money out of your infected computer - and you might know anything about it until you received an expensive telephone bill.
Dialler Trojan horses went the way of the dinosaur as consumers turned their back on modem connections and adopted broadband en masse.
But, as F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen explained today at the Virus Bulletin conference, the threat may have returned in a different form through the use of virtual premium rate numbers.
Earlier this year I described the Terdial Trojan horse, which was distributed posing as a Windows mobile game called "3D Anti-terrorist action", but appeared to make calls to Antarctica, Dominican Republic, Somalia and Sao Tome and Principe without the owner's permission.
So how did it make money for the hackers?
Well, it transpires that although the Trojan did make phone calls to numbers associated with various far-flung corners of the world, the calls never made it that far.
That's because the phone numbers were what are known as virtual numbers. It's perfectly possible to find telephone operators on the web who will rent you premium phone number associated with, say, Antarctica, and pay you every time that a call is made.
Unlike other legitimate premium rate numbers (such as 1-900 in USA), there is no regulation preventing abuse of the virtual numbers, and the 'owner' of the number gets paid instantly rather than having to wait 30 days.
And your call never actually gets as far as Antarctica or North Korea. It's stopped in your own country, but you're still billed as though you rang that far away place.
The days of Trojan horses making money out of dial-up modem connections may be long gone, but here's a model for money-making that mobile malware authors could certainly exploit.
BillBoard - Blogs - The Buffalo <b>News</b>
Buffalo Bills cornerback Terrence McGee had minor surgery Saturday to repair a pinched nerve affecting his left leg, an NFL source told the Buffalo News. The procedure was successful, but it could sideline McGee for up to four weeks. ...
Monday's <b>news</b>: Saturday's opener can't get here soon enough! - On <b>...</b>
At long last, we've got some honest-to-goodness competitive NHL hockey to look forward to this week as the 2010-11 season opens Thursday evening.
The Birmingham <b>News</b> Pink Edition: Supporting the fight against <b>...</b>
Reports on the work being done in our community to fight the disease and sharing the stories of breast cancer survivors.
eric seiger eric seiger
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Remember the old days of dialler Trojan horses?
Back when most of us didn't have broadband at home, and connected to the internet via a modem, we saw a type of malware which could take advantage of the phone line plugged into the back of your PC and dial an expensive premium rate number.
In this way, criminal hackers could make money out of your infected computer - and you might know anything about it until you received an expensive telephone bill.
Dialler Trojan horses went the way of the dinosaur as consumers turned their back on modem connections and adopted broadband en masse.
But, as F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen explained today at the Virus Bulletin conference, the threat may have returned in a different form through the use of virtual premium rate numbers.
Earlier this year I described the Terdial Trojan horse, which was distributed posing as a Windows mobile game called "3D Anti-terrorist action", but appeared to make calls to Antarctica, Dominican Republic, Somalia and Sao Tome and Principe without the owner's permission.
So how did it make money for the hackers?
Well, it transpires that although the Trojan did make phone calls to numbers associated with various far-flung corners of the world, the calls never made it that far.
That's because the phone numbers were what are known as virtual numbers. It's perfectly possible to find telephone operators on the web who will rent you premium phone number associated with, say, Antarctica, and pay you every time that a call is made.
Unlike other legitimate premium rate numbers (such as 1-900 in USA), there is no regulation preventing abuse of the virtual numbers, and the 'owner' of the number gets paid instantly rather than having to wait 30 days.
And your call never actually gets as far as Antarctica or North Korea. It's stopped in your own country, but you're still billed as though you rang that far away place.
The days of Trojan horses making money out of dial-up modem connections may be long gone, but here's a model for money-making that mobile malware authors could certainly exploit.
BillBoard - Blogs - The Buffalo <b>News</b>
Buffalo Bills cornerback Terrence McGee had minor surgery Saturday to repair a pinched nerve affecting his left leg, an NFL source told the Buffalo News. The procedure was successful, but it could sideline McGee for up to four weeks. ...
Monday's <b>news</b>: Saturday's opener can't get here soon enough! - On <b>...</b>
At long last, we've got some honest-to-goodness competitive NHL hockey to look forward to this week as the 2010-11 season opens Thursday evening.
The Birmingham <b>News</b> Pink Edition: Supporting the fight against <b>...</b>
Reports on the work being done in our community to fight the disease and sharing the stories of breast cancer survivors.
eric seiger eric seiger
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